Comment 205 for bug 134660

Hi,

I have 2 Edimax EW-7108PCg cards (rt61pci driver), one in gutsy with hardy kernel and another in hardy beta with all updates.

Both systems are connected to the same access point (with WPA1/AES) and the connection doesn't fall as it did with the gutsy kernel, but it's still inconstant in signal detection and performance.

The information about the connection is also wrong, I think.
This is what i see with iwconfig:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Casa"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:18:F3:98:D3:C4
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
          Link Quality=48/100 Signal level=-40 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

the quality is varies from 50% to 90% with the wireless card and the access point in the same room and the bit rate is always 1Mb/s!!!
Copying a music album (~100Mb) from one computer to the other takes arround 15 min. Too slow!

So, for me rt61pci from hardy is more stable, but much more slow than in gutsy.